OT: MLB Thread XL: The Home Stretch

[Leetch3]

Mets own Dolittle.

he's given up 10 runs to the mets...9 runs against the rest of the league combined

 

[Speedtrials]

Wow this has been so much fun! Reminds me of the Piazza, Alfonso, Ventura summers

 

[Ghost of jas]

The Mets are now tied for the second wild card.

 

[will1066]

I can at least watch SNY for the post game thru the NBCSN app. Might have to get MLB At Bat for the stretch run if they keep this up.

 

[egelband]

Need to hold them in 9th. We have hit Dolittle hard earlier in year. If I remember correctly it was Frazier that took him out.

Nice call!!!

 

[Larrybiv]

Thank You Mets, turns out we did deserve to win.

 

[will1066]

Zeile replaced Figueroa. News to me.

 

[Larrybiv]

Washington snatching a loss from the hands of victory.

 

[Crease]

I will never slander Todd Frazier again.

 

[Machinehead]

Which one of you swatted him? @Machinehead ?

I wouldn't do that to Cash.

Rothschild, absolutely.

 

[JimmyG89]

Rally in the 9th to tie and a lot of times when that happens the pitcher can reset with nobody on. Panik put together a good at bat, fouled off a few pitches and got a hit. Kept the pressure on and put Doolittle right back out there with a runner on.

That's why you get someone with a history of success and veterans. Not to mention someone that puts the ball in play instead of striking out too often.

 

[will1066]

Wow this has been so much fun! Reminds me of the Piazza, Alfonso, Ventura summers

I was ready to post something very similar, reminiscing about that murderers' row. Add Olerud.

 

[Sam Spade]

#1 on Twitter right now:

 

[Bob Richards]

f*** me up, Metropolitans.

 

[Larrybiv]

Nice call!!!

Thanks bud, well was it Frazier earlier in year? My memory is horrific, but somehow I had a feeling......did my "Dolittle" reverse jinx by saying we didn't deserve to win. I meant it at the time......jeez, never really expected this. Thought that extra run they scored would bite us in the ass. Thank God it didn't eventually matter.

I would walk Rendon 4 times tomorrow Noah. Dont let him beat you and us.

 

[Mac n Gs]

The run this team is on is nothing short of amazin’

That 9th inning was incredible

 

[Larrybiv]

I will never slander Todd Frazier again.

I have been destroying Frazier all season up until about a month ago. Kept yelling, go back to the friggin Yankees, I dont want you on my team. Partially because of his lousy swings and because I want JD to get substantial PT. He has been playing left, so I am okay with Frazier at 3rd, and he HAS been hitting.

 

[Larrybiv]

I am telling you guys right now......Atlanta is in a whole lot of deep shit. This Mets 7 train is coming at them really fast.

 

[Crease]

Mets jumped the Phillies. 7.5 games back basically two weeks ago.

 

[Bob Richards]

Mets jumped the Phillies. 7.5 games back basically two weeks ago.

Less than a month ago they were 14th in the NL lmfao.

What am I watching rn

 

[Larrybiv]

Oh noooooo! Alonso is doing the Rick Nash stare to the camera! Tell me it isn't so Joe!

 

[will1066]

You need to be really happy to rip a teammate's jersey off

 

[will1066]

Gazelle Man was good in relief.

 

[Maximus]

Just back from the Met watch party. A bit buzzed from a few cocktails but how could I not be after what we just witnessed. Probably as exciting a game as we've seen since 2016.

This was 2015 all over again. We won a few games exactly like this that year as we went on that sick run in August/September on our way to WS. I actually think this team is better than that one but that's a discussion for another time.

Couple of quick thoughts:

Mets dodged a few bullets just as Nationals did. Stromen pitched really well IMO other than that one inning when he left the ball up in the zone a few times. He settled down and stepped up to the stage and was exactly what I expected. We are lucky to have him

Ramos came thru with a big hit in 9th but he was pretty lackadaisical on that 6th Nats run...almost cost us.

Alonso and Davis are the new "bash brothers". Phenomenal the run they are on.

Frazier and Conforto both come thru in huge ways. Panik didn't look out of place.

I dunno, just a real fun time tonight in one of the more exciting games you'll ever want to see.

So where do we go from here?

Well now pressure is all on Nats as Mets did exactly what I was hoping they'd do which was win the first game for sure and than see if the pressure can get to the Nats.

I'm confident that we can figure out a way to win one of these next two with deGrom and Noah going but you can't discount a sweep if we win tomorrow...who knows? That was the significance of tonight...the Nats know the Mets are for real and if you guys recall, in 2015, Cespedes, Murphy and the boys broke out the lumber bigtime as we swept the Nats I believe twice down the stretch.

Who the hell knows with this team anymore as I'm not putting anything past them. We'll see what happens.

Hell of a win boys...so happy.

 

[sbjnyc]